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The School of Politics and International Relations is in the Law and Social Sciences Building (pictured) on the University Campus of the University of Nottingham.

The School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham is an academic department at the University of Nottingham. The School of Politics is housed in the Law and Social Sciences Building (LASS) a home it shares with Law and Sociology. In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise the Department's research was ranked in the top 10 departments of Politics in the country[1] and 85% of the research was considered of international standard.[2] The school run nine undergraduate programmes, nine postgraduate programmes and have a 40-strong PhD community.[2] Research activity in the school is ranked around 7 Institutes.[3] The current Head of School is Dr Matthew Humphrey.[4] The school publish a blog called Ballots & Bullets. The blog originated from a blog project on the 2010 General Election which won the Some Comms Award for best 'Low Budget Campaign'. In 2013 the department was chosen along with the University of Oxford and the University of Manchester to host the 2015 British Election Study.[5]

Degrees

Undergraduate

  • MSci International Relations and Global Issues
  • BA Politics
  • BA International Relations
  • BA Politics and Economics
  • BA History and Politics
  • BA Politics and American Studies
  • BA French and Politics
  • BA German and Politics

Postgraduate

  • MA in Diplomacy
  • MA in International Relations Masters
  • MA in International Relations (Advanced Research Track)
  • MA International Relations (Research Track)
  • MA in International Security and Terrorism
  • MA in Politics (Advanced Research Track)
  • MA in Politics (Research Track)
  • MA in Politics and Contemporary History
  • MA in Politics and Contemporary History (Research Track)
  • MA in Social and Global Justice
  • MA in War and Contemporary Conflict

Research

The current research centres are:

  • The Centre for Normative Political Theory
  • Centre for Conflict, Security and Terrorism
  • Centre for the Study of European Governance
  • Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice
  • Centre for British Politics
  • Institute for Asia-Pacific Studies
  • Methods and Data Institute

Notable staff

Controversies

Main article: Nottingham Two

The School received international media attention in 2011 when an academic in the department Dr Rod Thornton published an academic paper critical of the department and the University of Nottingham's handling of the arrest of a student called Rizwaan Sabir who was completing a PhD thesis on terrorism. Mr Sabir downloaded a copy of an Al-Qaeda training manual from a US government website and was wrongly arrested on terrorism charges. The University of Nottingham described the paper as defamatory to a number of Dr Thornton's colleagues in the department. [8]Thornton later apologized for inaccuracies in his paper and left his job by mutual consent.

Alumni

See also

References

  1. ^ School History - The University of Nottingham
  2. ^ a b Ballots & Bullets | About
  3. ^ Research - The University of Nottingham
  4. ^ About the School - The University of Nottingham
  5. ^ http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/pressreleases/2013/march/consortium-plays-host-to-british-election-study.aspx
  6. ^ http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/pressreleases/2012/december/its-goodbye-oxford,-hello-nottingham-for-professor-michael-freeden.aspx
  7. ^ http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/politics/news/2012/professor-michael-freeden-joins-the-school.aspx
  8. ^ BBC News - Noam Chomsky calls for Nottingham expert reinstatement
  9. ^ http://emmabarnett.org/about/
  10. ^ http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ugvideos/Opendayvideos/ChrisBates.aspx?KeepThis=true&TB_iframe=true&height=370&width=519
  11. ^ http://www.nataliepinkham.com/biography.html
  12. ^ http://www.kelvinhopkinsmp.com/biog.html
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